Common Sense Model

Question 1

What does self-regulation involve?

Answer 1

Identification of goal

Selecting a strategy and implement

Strategy achieved goal or not?

Question 2

What is our body’s goal?

Answer 2

Maintain/return to normal/healthy state

Question 3

Basic assumptions of CSM model:

Answer 3

Patient as common-sense scientist

Patients regulate their experiences, symptoms and changes over time

Question 4

What’s included in cognitive path of CSM model?

Answer 4

Appraisal -> Coping procedures, danger control -> representation of illness risk -> health messages

Question 5

What’s included in the emotional path of the CSM model?

Answer 5

Appraisal -> coping procedures, fear control -> emotional reactions (e.g. fear,worry) -> health messages

Question 6

What are the 5 compartments of illness perceptions?

Answer 6

Identity

Perceived Cause

Curability / controllability

Consequences

Timeline

Question 7

What’s identity in disease?

Answer 7

Symptoms experienced by person as well as person’s label for disease

Question 8

Importance of CSM model:

Answer 8

Predict health behaviours such as medication adherence

Question 9

Timeline of disease:

Answer 9

Acute

Chronic

Cyclic

Question 10

What can make a patient have a slower return to work and social duties after disease?

Answer 10

Beliefs in major consequences

Chronic timeline